I picked up this program after someone mentioned it her on/. It is the best program, I've seen in quite a while. It is just such an elegant solution.
It's simple to set up, easy as cake to use, has a small footprint, is very flexible in terms of platforms supproted, and best of all it's FREE.
Sure pcAnywhere is good, but it costs and isnt as easy to setup.
Never tried RDP, and it may be faster, but VNC is perfectly adequate for my purposes.
I see this EULA provision as just another reason not to upgrade my w2k boxs to XP. And someday i'll be switching to FreeBSD for good if this kind of stuff keeps coming down the pipe.
I hate to burst your bubble, but what is to prevent someone from adding spyware to your make scripts.
Those scumbags just havn't gotten around to *nix yet.
A tip for the windows users out there...Use the free utility inctrl5 (from zdnet) when you do an install. It documents all changes to your system performed during an install, including the registry.
The 2nd Ave. Subway is alreadyin the planning stage (again if you remember the history of it) and will probably be built sometime in the next 15 years.
Although it would be cool I think Apple has missed the boat.
Years ago 9 (1990-1992) Apple had the chance to move out of the hardware buisness, but they chose not to. Now they are locked into their hardware sales. To release an x86 version would kill their hardware business.
Their only real chance at the big OS market of M$ is to abandon their hardware buisness and focus on building OS sales to all types of hardware.
And to those that say that the mac is stable because of the consistant hardware, it has been my opinion that the mac os crashes just as often if not more that a PC.
I maintain an old mechanical engineering simulation package that was originally written in FORTRAN 66 way back in the 60's. It is a major pain in the a$$.
It uses "arithmetic if's" and "gotos" which really generate spaghetti. It also uses a huge "common block" for global data (which is basically every variable). Any function or subroutine can change any global variable. Variables have different meaning at different times in the program to save memory. Fixed array sizes. The list goes on and on.
I wish we had the budget to move this beast to C++ where it would be easier to add features to objects without having to delve into the guts of the program to make changes.
I am by no means a great programmer (at least by/. standards), but I managed to get an old Fortran program talking to an VB ActiveX component via a wizard in Digital Visual Fortran. It does what I wanted it to do, but the code that was added, which looks like some sort of interface declaration, was completely cryptic to me.
YMMV
You have got to be kidding. If ice is the wonder fuel that is keeping us from a manned mars mission why aren't we building these great ice powered vessels at the south pole where there is plenty of ice. The answer is the energy needed to break down the water into H and O. Where is this energy coming from? Solar panels? Good luck!
When you say "on loan from the government" it brings up the fact that the government is "...of the people, by the people, for the people...". Therefore this information is our property...we created it, we own it, and we deserve to have access to it.
I feel the same way. Ultima II rocked! I used to play on my old Atari 800. The game had a cool cloth map. I loved robbing the towns, finding the invincible guards, creating boats from thin air, flying the planes.
You have a good point, but sometimes the knowledge of who is talking to who is more important than the content of the message. This is something the government can do more easily than decrypting jpgs and such.
Just looking at the posts for this story, it doesn't appear that many people in china have unfettered access/. That alone says alot about what kind of freedom you can expect there.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
---Thomas Jefferson [Declaration of Independence]
I think the DOD is using this as a bargaining tool to get a bigger discount on their MS volume purchases. It easier to negotiate when you have a second source. Good thinking DOD! It may save the taxpayers $$$!
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I picked up this program after someone mentioned it her on /. It is the best program, I've seen in quite a while. It is just such an elegant solution.
It's simple to set up, easy as cake to use, has a small footprint, is very flexible in terms of platforms supproted, and best of all it's FREE.
Sure pcAnywhere is good, but it costs and isnt as easy to setup.
Never tried RDP, and it may be faster, but VNC is perfectly adequate for my purposes.
I see this EULA provision as just another reason not to upgrade my w2k boxs to XP. And someday i'll be switching to FreeBSD for good if this kind of stuff keeps coming down the pipe.
I hate to burst your bubble, but what is to prevent someone from adding spyware to your make scripts.
Those scumbags just havn't gotten around to *nix yet.
A tip for the windows users out there...Use the free utility inctrl5 (from zdnet) when you do an install. It documents all changes to your system performed during an install, including the registry.
The 2nd Ave. Subway is alreadyin the planning stage (again if you remember the history of it) and will probably be built sometime in the next 15 years.
But I won't hold my breath.
Just Read and follow these and you will be OK
http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/html%2Dhell.html
...is to hold on to your old hard drives and computer equipment.
It may be slow but it doesnt have DRM built in and should still work in the future.
... some cracker will set up a node that, when asked for a web page, issues spam instead.
... or worse yet the web page requested with spam interspearsed.
That will be the end of that.
The End. (uggh) Nice idea though!
Although it would be cool I think Apple has missed the boat.
Years ago 9 (1990-1992) Apple had the chance to move out of the hardware buisness, but they chose not to. Now they are locked into their hardware sales. To release an x86 version would kill their hardware business.
Their only real chance at the big OS market of M$ is to abandon their hardware buisness and focus on building OS sales to all types of hardware.
And to those that say that the mac is stable because of the consistant hardware, it has been my opinion that the mac os crashes just as often if not more that a PC.
Here is a link to interesting privacy and crypto quotes:
Privacy and Crypto QuotesI just want to know who gave control of the olympics to these bozos?
It is my understanding that the olympics were started in Greece over a thousand years ago.
I think some sort of democratic system should be put in place to control the olympics so that this type of crap doesent happen.
I personally am boycotting them.
I dont think this is the case. Handspring just wants out of the PDA business where margins are small and the competition is great.
They will probably still make visors for a while longer and perhaps they will put the springboard slot on the new treo. It is a PDA also.
They need inovative products to move the company forward.
I maintain an old mechanical engineering simulation package that was originally written in FORTRAN 66 way back in the 60's. It is a major pain in the a$$.
;)
It uses "arithmetic if's" and "gotos" which really generate spaghetti. It also uses a huge "common block" for global data (which is basically every variable). Any function or subroutine can change any global variable. Variables have different meaning at different times in the program to save memory. Fixed array sizes. The list goes on and on.
I wish we had the budget to move this beast to C++ where it would be easier to add features to objects without having to delve into the guts of the program to make changes.
The program is fast at what it does though
I am by no means a great programmer (at least by /. standards), but I managed to get an old Fortran program talking to an VB ActiveX component via a wizard in Digital Visual Fortran. It does what I wanted it to do, but the code that was added, which looks like some sort of interface declaration, was completely cryptic to me.
YMMV
There is absoutely nothing wrong with Rolling Rock. A very nice drinking beer.
You have got to be kidding. If ice is the wonder fuel that is keeping us from a manned mars mission why aren't we building these great ice powered vessels at the south pole where there is plenty of ice. The answer is the energy needed to break down the water into H and O. Where is this energy coming from? Solar panels? Good luck!
When you say "on loan from the government" it brings up the fact that the government is "...of the people, by the people, for the people...". Therefore this information is our property...we created it, we own it, and we deserve to have access to it.
Wouldn't it be easier to get Linux to work on a laptop instead of building a laptop from scratch.
A better way to get a Free MIT education is to go to Cooper Union
The Cooper UnionHindenburg
And the...
Challenger!
Both terrible accidents made worse by hydrogen
bow-chicka-bow-wow music Now that what slashdot needs! Either that or the theme from sanford and son
I feel the same way. Ultima II rocked! I used to play on my old Atari 800. The game had a cool cloth map. I loved robbing the towns, finding the invincible guards, creating boats from thin air, flying the planes.
I wonder why no one else feels the same.
You can still play it with an emulator though.
You have a good point, but sometimes the knowledge of who is talking to who is more important than the content of the message. This is something the government can do more easily than decrypting jpgs and such.
Q: What is your name?
A: No
Q: How are you feeling?
A: No
Q: What is the meaning of life?
A: No
Not to hard to program AI for that huh!
Just looking at the posts for this story, it doesn't appear that many people in china have unfettered access /. That alone says alot about what kind of freedom you can expect there.
I think the DOD is using this as a bargaining tool to get a bigger discount on their MS volume purchases. It easier to negotiate when you have a second source. Good thinking DOD! It may save the taxpayers $$$!
This is ludicrous.
I will never accept this.
Perhaps when M$ allows me to put links on THEIR home page will I accept this new feature.
Don't let them do it!